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NV: Senators Vote to Reverse Governor's Recommendation to Close NSP

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Nevada Lawmakers order state prison to remain open By Geoff Dornan Lake Tahoe Bonanza News Service CARSON CITY, Nev. ? Lawmakers Tuesday voted to reverse the governor?s budget recommendation and keep Nevada State Prison open for the next two years. That decision and others made by the joint Senate Finance/Assembly Ways and Means subcommittee put a near $30 million hole in the Department of Corrections budget ? a hole Director Howard Skolnik said they will need to fill somehow. He has warned repeatedly his department?s budgets can?t be cut any further in other areas without jeopardizing the safety of inmates and his staff. Closure of NSP would actually have saved the department more than $33 million over the biennium. Lawmakers also voted against Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 30, 2009 (boomark / email).